Humanity has been harvesting energy from the wind for centuries. The practice goes back at least to 8th century Persia where the first known historical records of windmills came, but likely extends ...

Windmills and wind turbines share the same spinning blades, but these wind-powered structures have very different roles. Here ...

Norway's World Wide Wind has a radically different take on offshore wind power. These floating, vertical-axis wind turbines feature two sets of blades, tuned to contra-rotate – and they promise more ...

Vertical Wind Turbine: Electricity bills tend to rise along with the temperature. If you are troubled by soaring electricity ...

Thousands of tonnes of non-recyclable wind turbine blades are coming to the end of their lives.

Hywind Tampen wind farm, Norway. Karoline Rivero Bernacki/Equinor, CC BY-NC-ND Growing demand for cleaner energy sources means offshore wind farms are being built all over the world. More than 5,000 ...